Pixel Art Details

I gave my creativity a cesarean section to deliver this piece! The hardest part was actually getting it to a level where I am somewhat satisfied with the result. I will still probably make sporadic adjustments to it.

I tried to depict a scene involving female orcs, however, I wanted to do so without making them green or ugly.

I kept a small palette (not completely optimized), and drew it from scratch. Layers, filters, indexing, and scanning were not used.

I think so. Thanks. I've been stumbling my way through foliage over on the pixelation forums and think maybe one of the problems was I didn't take the branches small enough to follow through with leaves... maybe. Just need to practice a lot more :)

Oh, wow. I missed this one when I went hunting for trees to examine. The whole thing is incredible, but I'm especially curious about how the leaves were done - specifically, what methods there be to save time, or whether you painted each leaf individually instead. Looking forward to dissecting it and hopefully learning something in the process.

this is very well done and interestingly anachronistic. Whom are the orcs? The little guy in the woods or the gals? If its the ladies then, I have to say, as much as i don't want to play the race card its interesting that you didn't want to do real orcs so instead you drew some black ladies. Which is creatively cool but politically questionable. note that I'm not judging just curious.